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WASHINGTON — Singapore’s foreign minister has pledged that his country will investigate the
death of an American engineer whose family rejects a Singaporean police finding that their son died
of a suicide.

Shane Todd’s body was found in his Singapore apartment hours after his last day working for a
government research agency there.

“There will be a public inquiry where all the relevant evidence will be presented,” Shanmugam
said, adding that the Todd family will be entitled to appoint lawyers and take part in the
investigation.

Although the death in June was ruled a suicide by Singaporean police, a report published last
month in the
Financial Times suggested that the investigation was flawed and its conclusions were
suspect. The report also said that before his death, Todd had feared that a project he was working
on would be used by China for military applications.

According to the
Financial Times, Todd was buying technology with military uses from a U.S. company, and
because the project also involved the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, he was afraid that
U.S. security could be compromised.